Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013)

Last weekend, the world saw white supremacist and mass murderer Dylann Roof posing stone-faced with Confederate flags and license plates. Sometime after the pictures were taken, Roof allegedly shot dead nine parishioners at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, using a legally acquired 45-caliber Glock handgun after passing a background check. On Monday,...

President Barack Obama dominated the TV news Wednesday night for his angry criticism of the U.S. Senate's votes not to impose any restrictions on guns in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre.
Even though many political watchers thought all...

WASHINGTON — A recent string of mass shootings has Democrats and gun safety advocates, including both Connecticut senators, renewing their call for legislation and retail policies to require background checks for firearm purchases.Some senators are asking...

Gun show checkups
That states and towns are moving quickly to remove Confederate battle flags in the wake of the Charleston, S.C., murders is remarkable and positive. But can the country go from symbol to substance to reduce violence?
U.S. Sens. Joe...

The inability to enact new gun safety laws after the Sandy Hook school shooting ranks as "the single failure" of his tenure, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a televised interview.
"The gun lobby simply won, you know?" Holder said in an interview...